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Ten-year return levels of sub-daily extreme precipitation over Europe
Benjamin Poschlod
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Department of Geography, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 80333 Munich, Germany
Ralf Ludwig
Department of Geography, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 80333 Munich, Germany
Jana Sillmann
Center for International Climate and Environmental Research (CICERO), Oslo, 0318, Norway
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This study provides a homogeneous data set of 10-year rainfall return levels based on 50 simulations of the Canadian Regional Climate Model v5 (CRCM5). In order to evaluate its quality, the return levels are compared to those of observation-based rainfall of 16 European countries from 32 different sources. The CRCM5 is able to capture the general spatial pattern of observed extreme precipitation, and also the intensity is reproduced in 77 % of the area for rainfall durations of 3 h and longer.
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